Chrissie White

Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878 Irish novel of the same name by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Molly Bawn the novel by M. W. Hungerford contains her most famous idiom: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." It is also referenced in chapter 8 of James Joyce's Ulysses.

A woman disapproves of her stepson's love for a girl who goes mad when her drunken father dies in a landslide.

A Cockney poses as his drowned double, who is saved and poses as a chauffeur.

A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.

A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.

Covert operations on the home front find solutions to shortages just next door.

Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.

Chrissie White, one of Hepworth Studios' biggest stars, heads up this feisty battle-of-the-sexes comedy about an independent young lady who, for the sake of a rich husband, poses as the epitome of Victorian femininity - weak, docile and submissive. But when he steps out of line the gloves come off to reveal 'Physical Culture Phyllis', who punches well above her weight!

A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.

A ten-part series of comedies in which a man repeatedly gets into trouble with his wife.

Bill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the security of his job and income prey on his mind and he frets over not being able to provide for Lily. With his worries heightened by the fear that he is about to go blind, he falls into a deep depression .....

A girl's beau poses as a burglar to fool her boastful father.

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.

Two young men help two girls escape.

A poor author has an engaged girl pose as his wife to please his dying father.

A poet struggles to get her work accepted.

After his brother's suicide, Alec Dale is determined to get revenge on the woman that he believes drove him to his death.

Lt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty concerning the mischievous responses of a poor family to regular visits from the bailiffs.

'Lady introduces wounded cobbler to Minister of Pensions, who makes him gift from King's Fund.' (British Film Catalogue)

Tomboys play tricks on their uncle when he flirts with a maid.

A professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.

Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.